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BIGGEST LAUNCHES
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SPACEX NOTCHES MORE LANDINGS
At the end of 2015, SpaceX successfully landed a Falcon 9 first stage for the first time after several unsuccessful attempts earlier in the year....

Guiulio Ranzo. Credit: Eric VandevilleThe recent German-Italian agreement to divide production of casings for the future Ariane 6 rocket’s strap-on boosters, which also serve as the first stage of the Ital...

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€400M
The amount Eutelsat paid Russian Satellite Communications Co. after a French court ruled Nov. 23 that RSCC was not an arm of the Russian government. Former shareholders in the Russian...

SIGNIFICANT DIGITS
$7.6 Million
The value of the non-cash impairment charge UrtheCast is taking on the two Earth-observation cameras mounted on the International Space Station’s Russian segment. UrtheCast sai...

William Wade. Credit: AsiaSatWilliam Wade is stepping down Nov. 1 as president and CEO of AsiaSat, but will continue to serve as a senior adviser to the Hong Kong-based company through March 2017. Wade wil...

NRO via TwitterElon Musk doesn’t believe sabotage is a likely cause of September’s pad explosion, but still worries about it. Musk, speaking at the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office in Chantilly, Virgini...

For good or ill, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton haven’t said much about U.S. space policy during the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign. SpaceNews put nine identical questions to the Clinton and Trump camps. Her...

The U.S. Air Force put the launch of a tech demo satellite out to bid for SpaceX and ULA. The Air Force issued a request for proposals Sept. 29 for the Space Test Program 3 mission, which consists of the STPSat...

Thomas Zurbuchen is NASA’s new associate administrator for science. Zurbuchen is currently a professor of space science and aerospace engineering at the University of Michigan, and has worked on several NASA sp...